A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: understanding socio-ecological systems
The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests, significant losses in biological diversity and negative impacts on many ecosystem services. In this paper, we highlight the Agrarian Change Project, a multi-disciplinary research initiative, that applies detailed socio-ecological methodologies in multi-functional landscapes, and assess the subsequent implications for conservation, livelihoods and food security. Specifically, the research focuses on land use impacts in locations which exhibit various combinations of agricultural modification/change across a forest transition gradient in six tropical landscapes, in Zambia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Bangladesh. These methods include integrated assessments of the perceptions of ecosystem service provision, tree cover loss and gain, relative poverty, diets and agricultural patterns of change. Although numerous surveys on rural livelihoods are undertaken each year, often at great cost, many are hampered by weaknesses in methods and thus may not reflect rural realities. We attempt to highlight how integrating broader socio-ecological methods can be used to fill in those gaps and ensure such realities are indeed captured. Early findings suggest that the transition from a forested landscape to a more agrarian dominated system does not necessarily result in better livelihood outcomes and there may be unintended consequences of forest and tree cover removal. These include the loss of access to grazing land, loss of dietary diversity and the loss of ecosystem services/forest products.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-190772021-08-05T18:02:34Z A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: understanding socio-ecological systems Sunderland, T. Abdoulaye, R. Ahammad, R. Asaha, S. Baudron, F. Deakin, E. Duriaux, J. Eddy, I. Foli, S. Gumbo, D. Khatun, K. Kondwani, M Kshatriya, M. Leonald, L. Rowland, D. Stacey, N. Tomscha, S. Yang, K. Gergel, S. Vianen, J. V. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Agrarian Change AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FORESTS LIVELIHOODS POVERTY BIODIVERSITY The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests, significant losses in biological diversity and negative impacts on many ecosystem services. In this paper, we highlight the Agrarian Change Project, a multi-disciplinary research initiative, that applies detailed socio-ecological methodologies in multi-functional landscapes, and assess the subsequent implications for conservation, livelihoods and food security. Specifically, the research focuses on land use impacts in locations which exhibit various combinations of agricultural modification/change across a forest transition gradient in six tropical landscapes, in Zambia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Bangladesh. These methods include integrated assessments of the perceptions of ecosystem service provision, tree cover loss and gain, relative poverty, diets and agricultural patterns of change. Although numerous surveys on rural livelihoods are undertaken each year, often at great cost, many are hampered by weaknesses in methods and thus may not reflect rural realities. We attempt to highlight how integrating broader socio-ecological methods can be used to fill in those gaps and ensure such realities are indeed captured. Early findings suggest that the transition from a forested landscape to a more agrarian dominated system does not necessarily result in better livelihood outcomes and there may be unintended consequences of forest and tree cover removal. These include the loss of access to grazing land, loss of dietary diversity and the loss of ecosystem services/forest products. 83-91 2017-11-24T16:15:29Z 2017-11-24T16:15:29Z 2017 Article 1389-9341 http://hdl.handle.net/10883/19077 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.04.013 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier 84 Forest Policy and Economics |
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The expansion of agriculture has resulted in large-scale habitat loss, the fragmentation of forests, significant losses in biological diversity and negative impacts on many ecosystem services. In this paper, we highlight the Agrarian Change Project, a multi-disciplinary research initiative, that applies detailed socio-ecological methodologies in multi-functional landscapes, and assess the subsequent implications for conservation, livelihoods and food security. Specifically, the research focuses on land use impacts in locations which exhibit various combinations of agricultural modification/change across a forest transition gradient in six tropical landscapes, in Zambia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Bangladesh. These methods include integrated assessments of the perceptions of ecosystem service provision, tree cover loss and gain, relative poverty, diets and agricultural patterns of change. Although numerous surveys on rural livelihoods are undertaken each year, often at great cost, many are hampered by weaknesses in methods and thus may not reflect rural realities. We attempt to highlight how integrating broader socio-ecological methods can be used to fill in those gaps and ensure such realities are indeed captured. Early findings suggest that the transition from a forested landscape to a more agrarian dominated system does not necessarily result in better livelihood outcomes and there may be unintended consequences of forest and tree cover removal. These include the loss of access to grazing land, loss of dietary diversity and the loss of ecosystem services/forest products. |
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Sunderland, T. Abdoulaye, R. Ahammad, R. Asaha, S. Baudron, F. Deakin, E. Duriaux, J. Eddy, I. Foli, S. Gumbo, D. Khatun, K. Kondwani, M Kshatriya, M. Leonald, L. Rowland, D. Stacey, N. Tomscha, S. Yang, K. Gergel, S. Vianen, J. V. |
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Sunderland, T. Abdoulaye, R. Ahammad, R. Asaha, S. Baudron, F. Deakin, E. Duriaux, J. Eddy, I. Foli, S. Gumbo, D. Khatun, K. Kondwani, M Kshatriya, M. Leonald, L. Rowland, D. Stacey, N. Tomscha, S. Yang, K. Gergel, S. Vianen, J. V. |
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A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: understanding socio-ecological systems |
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A methodological approach for assessing cross-site landscape change: understanding socio-ecological systems |
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